Emergence of a Snake-Like Structure in Mobile Distributed Agents: An Exploratory Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Algorithm 2

Main animation algorithm.

Data: Agent Set comprising of all agents

Result: Perform single simulation time step

for All Agents do

 if  leader? = true  then

  Move Random;

 else

  if  parent?! = 0  then

   face parent;

   Turn Right 180;

   Forward 0.2;

   Right 180;

   Let 𝑑 is Distance to Parent;

   Forward 𝑑/2;

  else

   Move Random;

   if  Leader Node in radius  then

    Make Leader Node Parent;

   end

  end

 end

end